change const to variable string?

[xplainet]

I have this from a reference code, and I figured it'd be useful and interesting if I could change the const char phrase to maybe a string that the user can enter, and it still complete the following function.
Is this possible?

  const char phrase[] = "Any text to be entered";

  std::cout << '"' << quote << "\"\n";

  // single character:
  std::cout << "begins with uppercase? : ";
  std::cout << std::boolalpha;
  std::cout << std::use_facet< std::ctype<char> >(loc).is (std::ctype<char>::upper, phrase[0]);
  std::cout << '\n';

[Null]

char phrase[256];
cin.getline(phrase,sizeof(phrase));

But your code can work with C++ strings without any modifications too

string phrase;
   getline(cin,phrase);
// ... 

[xplainet]

The first method worked, but I tried some alterations and couldn't get it to work as a string, since it is checking for the first character in the char type variable to see if it is upper.

But it's fine as is.

Thank you, Null.

[Chervil]

Quote:

"couldn't get it to work as a string, since it is checking for the first character"

I don't see why that would be a problem.
phrase[0] will access the first character of a std::string just as well as for a plain character array.